Hi Elaine,

 Thanks a lot for such a detailed reply.  I higly appreciate your time. I have a last question, I hope you won't mind it. In chimera website there is a option for user specified partial charges... I spend a lot of time to use a Define attribute: but no success so far. How can I change the partial charge of FE in heme using define attribute.

Once again, thank you very much for your time and help.
best regards
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http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/minimize/minimize.html